Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

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Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Strike Team » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:36 am

Both the tenement flats I lived in in the past had clothes pulleys attached to the ceiling. They had wooden rails, and , IIRC, cast metal cross pieces which attached the bars to the pulley mechanism. I plan to fit a clothes drier pulley into the high ceiling of the stairwell of my ugly 1960's terraced box. The only ceiling pulley I've found so far is a cheap piece of shite in B & Q.

Where can I find the real thing?
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Dexter St. Clair » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:14 am

The Scotstoun Emporium which would also make for a good day out for Hidden Glasgow. You could get lost in that store for several hours examining all sorts of ironmongery and appliances, get some keys cut, buy bug killers, and get bumped into by the stream of GCC employees coming in from Land Services, Janitorial and City Building.

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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Fossil » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:47 am

Crockets?
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Jazza » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:03 am

Catani's

Any good ironmonger type shop should sell one....
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby onyirtodd » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:10 pm

I rediscovered this stuff
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in a cupboard a couple of years ago.

They came from my old house across the road. The pulley was in a long narrow hall and my dad used to it get his bicycle out of the way.

You may have given me the dunt to get it all set up again.
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Strike Team » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:16 pm

Thanks folks.
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Jazza » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:36 pm

onyirtodd wrote:You may have given me the dunt to get it all set up again.


Nice - a rub down and a coat of hammerite and it'll be just right.

What will you use it for - suspending naked dwarf nyphos from the ceiling for one of your parties ::):
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Jazza » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:39 pm

@the original question --> I can recommend a FROST as an alternative

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categ ... 387/10463/
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby DVF » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:52 pm

Bought one of those last year, the pulley thing. Bloody expensive I thought, about £70 when all added together. Lasted about a month then took it down again. Got it out of the hardware store in Crow Road, in the row of shops with the 24hr video shop
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby onyirtodd » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:54 pm

Jazza wrote:
onyirtodd wrote:You may have given me the dunt to get it all set up again.


Nice - a rub down and a coat of hammerite and it'll be just right.

What will you use it for - suspending naked dwarf nyphos from the ceiling for one of your parties ::):


If only.

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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Ally Doll » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:43 am

Pulleys are great - I had one in my previous flat in Partick, but there isn't one in my new flat and the other half thinks they're unsightly (so's two clothes horses covered in damp washing, but he doesn't see it that way!).

Anyway, there's a guy in the west end who repairs pulleys - he used to put leaflets through the door also offering services such as window cleaning and barbershop quartets. I'll see if I can find one of his leaflets (or perhaps he's on here?!).
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby BTJustice » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:16 pm

I fished a set out of a skip a couple of years ago and whacked it on Ebay. Nice little profit :mrgreen:
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby onyirtodd » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:35 pm

BTJustice wrote:I fished a set out of a skip a couple of years ago and whacked it on Ebay. Nice little profit :mrgreen:



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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby BTJustice » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:53 pm

Nah, they were free with tokens oot the paper. More trouble than they were worth but, couldnt get them to stick to my nymphos of the world wall chart.
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Re: Where to Buy a Tenement-Style Ceiling Pulley Clothes Drier

Postby Strike Team » Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:29 pm

Just bought one from Catani, wee bit expensive at £42, but that said, I'd rather spend a bit more on something made from decent materials that will last for years than a cheaper piece of plastic shit from B & Q that will break after about 5 minutes.
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